ENERGY MANAGEMENT & SUSTAINABILITY
ACHIEVE TRUE SUSTAINABILITY
Marcus Sanders, Group Marketing Director at WCRS Ltd, explains how dealing effectively with your waste can increase your company’s sustainability and meet corporate social responsibility.
When it comes to waste management, the facilities manager faces many pressures and demands. It can be daunting to keep up with current legislation and regulations, know how to classify waste and deal with it effectively and sustainably to meet your Duty of Care. Let’s face it, for many, waste management isn’t one of the most glamourous elements of the FM’s role.
An effective waste management policy for your business makes commercial sense: it should carry ambitions to increase recycling rates, reduce levels of waste to landfill, save money and enhance your company’s green credentials. But where do you start?
The UK produces over 200million tonnes of waste each year with research suggesting around a quarter of this is business waste (from any commercial activity, including construction, demolition, industry and agriculture). Disposal comes at a high price, not just in environmental terms but in financial ones too. Landfill tax sits at £86.10 per tonne and will rise to £89 per tonne from 1st April next year. The Government is likely to continue to increase this to encourage businesses to recycle more waste. In the majority of cases it is now more cost effective to recycle than to send to landfill.
Traditionally a ‘linear’ economy whereby, we simply make, 30 | TOMORROW’S FM
use and dispose, there is now a much greater emphasis on moving towards a ‘circular’ economy, where resources are kept in use for as long as possible, reusing and recycling them at the end of their life. The Government is committed to reducing the UK’s huge volume of waste year on year. Its Clean Growth Strategy released in October 2017 reaffirmed this commitment, stating a new target of becoming a zero avoidable waste economy by 2050.
Despite Brexit looming, the laws based on EU targets look set, for the foreseeable future at least, to remain the same and disposal to landfill should remain a last resort. For the facilities manager, working in collaboration with an experienced and innovative waste management company, from audit to plan, through to implementation, can really take the headache out of waste management.
The UK produces over 200million tonnes of waste each year.
Waste management specialist, WCRS, has over 20 years of experience and offers a bespoke recycling and waste management solution for all types of organisations across
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